A. Indoor environmental exposure assessment in buildings and vehicles
1. Factors
a. Thermal
b. Air quality
c. Light
d. Acoustic
e. Stress (psychological)
f. Combined exposure
2. Major exposure mapping studies of known health risks
3. Study design and measuring methodologies
a. Intervention studies
b. Identification of health/comfort predictors/proxies
4. Emission sources
a. Building materials/consumer products
b. Furnishing
c. Building services
d. People’s activities
5. The interface between outdoor/indoor environments
a. Pollutants
b. Climate
c. Indoor chemical reactions
B. Hazard identification and dose-response assessment
Which agents cause indoor environmental health effects, degradation of comfort and changes of productivity in buildings and vehicles (aircraft, cars, trucks, trains and buses)
1. Case studies and hypothesis-generating small studies
2. Dose-response studies of known health risks.
a. Asthma and allergy
b. Symptomatology
3. Other health effects
4. Study design and measuring methodologies
5. Risk groups and hypersensitivity
C. Risk Characterization in the indoor environment
Reviews and consensus papers on known indoor environment and health risks or other effects in developing or industrial societies, in buildings and vehicles (aircraft, cars, trucks, trains and buses)
1. Incidence in the population
2. Biological mechanisms
3. Methodologies for assessment of health endpoints
4. Quality of the consensus
D. Control and Regulatory options
1. Control
a. Substitution
b. Heating
c. Cooling
d. Ventilation
e. Air Cleaning
f. Filtration
2. Standards, guidelines and regulations, building codes
3. Occupant protection and information
E. Socio-economic context of management of the indoor environment
1. Productivity studies and causes
2. Cost of energy and maintenance
3. Importance of architecture
4. Ethics and cultural issues